Open letter Tuesday

faydre · May 2011

Put those thoughts, vents, thank yous, etc. into words ladies!!

faydre · May 2011

I'll start again this week.

this is a letter I wish I could send

Dear new job,

Leg me preface this by saying, my husband and I would really like to have children. Unfortunately, we can't have them in the traditional way.

I know that I am new here, and I know that this is the busy season, but, I would really appreciate it if you would be supportive of my desire to do ivf. Yes, I will need days off now and then, and the drugs might make me grumpy, and it will mean maternity leave. But, in my defense, I'm not asking for paid time off, and I'll work every weekend and holiday, and you really aren't paying me anything! I don't even want paid time off for my maternity leave!!

I just really don't want to wait much longer. The longer I put this off the more likely I'll have to deal with more thyroid problems. So, please work with me, and I'll bust my butt making it up to you...

Sincerely

desperate wanna-be mom

Kathy4678 · May 2011

Dear Manager,

Would you reconsider and stay in Texas? It would really work out best for me if you did.

Thanks in advance,

Me

punkymama · May 2011

Dear Body,

Look, I have been patient with you for the past 16 cycles! We are now on cycle 17 which doesn't even count because I am TTA thanks to you not cooperating for the past 16 cycles.

Can you give me a break next week for this lap/hysteroscopy? Please cooperate and whatever is found let it be minor so that I can get pregnant! I have been nice to you all my life; no broken or sprained bones, no stiches or surgery ever before...I think you owe me this.

Thanks in advance,

Me

coloradoalyssa · May 2011

Dear Brain,

If you could please allow me to not over think EVERYTHING during this 2ww that would be great. Please just focus on something else and not worry about and over analyze every small detail that my girl parts are doing down there. Please trust that they are going to do what they are supposed to do this month and then you can work some overtime after there is a baby down there.

My Sanity Thanks You For Your Cooperation,

Me

katib77 · May 2011

Dear Friend's Husband,

Do you realize that because of your constantly putting our home town down (both verbally and on facebook) make us - your wife's closest friends for over 20 years - not want to be around you. Thus making us not see your wife? You are the reason she has lost touch with her friends. It seems she's not able to go anywhere without you. And since you think coming up here to visit the "shittty assz town" is a "slow form of torture" we now cringe at the idea we have to convince her the two times a year you'll actually visit our town to try and come by herself and leave you at home with her parents. Where you then post and/or text minute by minute how bored you are and "can't wait to have your wife back". Have you no ability to exist on your own for six hours a year so that we can chat and catch up? You have to ruin that time too?! Before you married, you thought we girls hated you. Truth is, we didn't, but you've since convinced us with your words and actions. While I'm glad that you seem to make her happy, I hate you for what you've done to a group of friends that for 21 years have been the closest five girls you'd ever meet. Now we are just four girls costantly wondering "Will we ever see Joy again?". You SUCK.

Sincerly ~ The Blonde Squad

Ya Never Know · May 2011

Dear government of Canada,

Now that Harper has been elected in to a majority government and his first plan of action is to attack jobs in the public service, I now have even more reason to worry about the status of my employment.

Not only do I have to worry about my job, but I have to worry about my husband's job too, since he is a public service newbie.

I don't know what this country is coming to. The more crap I hear on the news, the less I want to live here.

If I were an ostrich... my head would never come out of the sand at this point.

With much disappointment,
Ya Never Know

renee3n2008 · May 2011

Dear Sister-in-law,

Please don't make my vacation miserable. This is MY vacation time it's not your time to leave your kids with my mother and I so you can sleep for days. This will be my only "vacation" this year. I do not want to spend it taking care of your kids. I only want to spoil them and give them back. Also please don't have me running around taking care of things you should have taken care of weeks ago. Oh yeah and please clean your house before we get there. Mom and I don't want to spend our vacation time cleaning your dirty house.

Thanks,

Your b!tch of a sister-in-law R

Citygirl1015 · May 2011

Dear right ovary,

Please get your butt in gear and produce lots of great follies next cycle, giving the left one a break. I cannot stand being forced to wait another cycle to move forward. It would also be awesome to not be throwing up and miserable from the fertility meds, only to have it be for nothing.

Thanks in advance.

Xo, Me

PS- Since we're wishing, why don't you talk to that left fallopian tube and get 'er to open up. That would make life so much easier.

ondjima · May 2011

Dear mother's day.

Screw you.

Sincerely, Ondjima.

coloradoalyssa · May 2011

ondjima:
Dear mother's day.
Screw you.
Sincerely, Ondjima.

Yes

hunterjumper102 · May 2011

I have two...

Dear RE and nurse,

I really really like you, however the phone call I got yesterday scared the s*** out of me. I realize it took two weeks to get my blood results back and we had already done our IUI but I wish you could still figure out what is going on. Saying that the doctor says the blood work looks like PCOS and then saying you don't see any red flags yourself really confuses me and has given me even more anxiety in this 2ww. I really hope that after this 2ww I don't have to worry about it anymore.

A very anxious and confused,

Cristina

Dear MIL and FIL,

I don't care that you are finally ready to be grandparents. I am sorry this is taking longer than we expected, I am working on it. Now that you know we are doing treatments please don't ask every month if we are pregnant, I will tell you when we are. Until then please just pretend we didn't tell you.

A frustrated,

DIL

jbeck78 · May 2011

Dear negative pregnancy tests,

F U...I hope you can find your way to turn postive one day and make me happy.

Not really sincerely,

Me

Jessiree · May 2011

Dear Friends that we've confided in about IF:

Thank you from the bottom of my heart for thinking of us and sending encouraging texts and emails on days you know I have appointments or bloodwork. It brings me to tears just thinking about your kindness, and I don't think I'll ever be able to express how much your thoughtfulness means.

Love,

Me

CluckyEV · May 2011

Apparently I am cranky today Confused ...

Dear Cyst,

First, I would like to Thank you for making yourself known in the u/s. I really do appreciate not being put on drugs that would feed you.

Since you are going to be around this month, could you make sure next month you GO AWAY! I am not appreciating how it is uncomfortable to wear a belt or sit for any extended amount of time. Yep, that airplane ride was awesome!

Sincerely (not really),

Clucky

Dear Person who sits next to me on the airplane,

There is pleanty of space for your bag under the seat in front of you. You don't need to keep them all in your lap and cover said bags with a magazine. If I need to get up while you are napping, I would like do be able to do so w/o getting my foot caught in the handles of 1 of the 3 or 4 bags you have carried on. If you think people want your junk, you are wrong. No need to babysit these bags.

I also know that I don't know you, but I will pull out a can of whoop ass if you put your arms in my seat. I am having tummy and back pains and don't want to deal with your nonsense too.

Lady in 3D, 9A, or any other window seat.

Dear Employees,

I am trying to bump! If you just let me pass the day doing this, I don't care what you do as long as the orders are filled and the building is still standing & locked in the morning. I will be in at 3:30am, which to my body will seem like 2:30am. Make sure you are gone. Tomorrow I may make an exception to the "there are no such thing as stupid questions." Realize that I probably won't be able to fall asleep until 11:00pm and will be a walking zombie.

Thank you for your cooperation,

Your manager

To all of the 3T gals,

Thank you for letting me vent, cry, support, be supported and in general a wory-wart. I appreciate you all, which I am sure you can understand.

Big Smile Clucky

CluckyEV · May 2011

jbeck78:

Dear negative pregnancy tests,

F U...I hope you can find your way to turn postive one day and make me happy.

Not really sincerely,

Me

Yes

maybebride · May 2011

Dear DH,
I love you and I'm very sorry you are sick. But, really? Really did it have to be right now? After all the talk we've had about lots of sex and the +OPK? Not trying to downplay illness, but it's really going to suck if we miss two cycles in a row.

Love - Your only slightly obsessive wife

Dear Head,
I'm really sorry about this cold front and all the rain, but it's not my fault, so why are you torturing me with this God-awful sinus headache from hell.

Dear Hormones,
I'm trying very, very hard. Mother's Day is just days away and I am trying everything in my power to stay positive and focus on it being about my own mom and my grandmother's birthday. It would be great if you could help me keep the emotions in check and remember that it's not all about me.

Cheetara2 · May 2011

CluckyEV:

Dear Person who sits next to me on the airplane,

There is pleanty of space for your bag under the seat in front of you. You don't need to keep them all in your lap and cover said bags with a magazine. If I need to get up while you are napping, I would like do be able to do so w/o getting my foot caught in the handles of 1 of the 3 or 4 bags you have carried on. If you think people want your junk, you are wrong. No need to babysit these bags.

I also know that I don't know you, but I will pull out a can of whoop ass if you put your arms in my seat. I am having tummy and back pains and don't want to deal with your nonsense too.

Lady in 3D, 9A, or any other window seat.

Too funny Big Smile

AKB090609 · May 2011

Dear Boss,

Thank you for extending your maternity leave by another two months, I will enjoy the calm serenity that has developed in your place! Please feel free to extend again and again, who knows if you keep this up I might actually be able to get KU before you come back and not glare daggers at you every time you drop your kid off in my classroom.

LOvE, AK

P.S. don't bring the drama back if you do return

sbrowns08 · May 2011

ondjima:
Dear mother's day.
Screw you.
Sincerely, Ondjima.

Yes

sbrowns08 · May 2011

Dear Brother-In-Law's Pregnant Girlfriend,

Now that you're showing, we really can't see each other anymore. It's not you, it's me.

Love,

Your Boyfriend's Brother's Emotionally Unstable Wife

Edit: word order

JennaNAaron · May 2011

Dear House,

Why do you smell funny? Is it the cats fault? I've cleaned every part of you that I thought might be responsible.

Me

Dear Ronald McDonald House,

Please post a job in my area. I really want to work there.

Thanks!

Me

adaisybug · May 2011

Dear follies,

I hope you are doing something in there, but I am getting kind of worried because I am not feeling uncomfortable yet, like I usually do by this point. I hope a few of you are nice and big on Friday at my monitoring appointment.

Love,

Your warm home

MyHusbandMyHero · May 2011

ok here we go..this might be a little mean..

Dear SIL,

I really do NOT want to hear what you are going to name your child. I really could care less that you like "C" names more because you and (the supposed) baby daddy have first names that start with "C". You are immature and always have been and are one of the LAST people on earth that need a child. OH and THANK YOU, for ruining my ultimate plan of having the first grandchild on both sides.. You are invited to our house warming / presentation, but if you end up making this all about you, and constantly talking about your unborn child, I will have to say something! Because I have news for you, this is NOT about you, its about me and your brother! OH and Im kind of disgusted that you claim to "love" the "baby daddy" but he is mostly likely not the real baby daddy! You gross me out.

not so much Love,

Jess

Dear OTHER SIL,

I dont want to go there on the internet.. you suck

-Jess

Ms H13 · May 2011

Dear Jess,

Please realize that you are one of the very few people we've told about our struggles with IF. Please further realize that together we've been poked, prodded, undergone an operation, seen dozens of negative HPTs and spent thousands of dollars just trying to become parents. Please realize that this is really hard for me and when you make stupid comments it really hurts. Also, I will be sending you the link to Resolve's guide for friends and families -- please read it more than once.

Mrs.Slick · May 2011

Dear MIL,

Yes, I know I'm co-hosting SIL's baby shower. But do you really need to update me with every.single.freaking.twinge, ache, pain, emotion that SIL feels? You know what we're going through and you know that while I'm excited for her, I'm still unhappy with our situation and don't want to hear about this.

Sincerely,

Your DIL

Dear coworker,

If you tell me one more time that I should be thankful that I don't have to get up to pee in the middle of the night/thankful I didn't have to deal with morning sickness/thankful I don't have achy boobs, I might flip my sh!t and end up on the news.

Not so kind regards,

Your down the hallway neighbor

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